Originally Posted by
mlmack
I don't understand the complete randomness of sewing machine pricing.
As well as that, he's looked up the serial number wrong. This looks like a VS2 from the 1890s. I looked up the number on mine wrong initially too, and thought it was an 1874. I'd missed a digit because there were 7! The no letter prefix machines go to 16,831,099 in 1899.
It's incredible to think that there were that many machines made and at the same time each one cost about 3 months' wages!